AAUP posits a binary choice: Either conservatives get equal rights or public education continues to be “empowered.” But we can’t have both. So, “empowerment” triumphs. Unless your opinions are deemed “right wing,” in which case, you’ll get neither empowerment nor free speech.

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In these pages, I recently chronicled the sad story of the sorry response by the CUNY Law School Dean to the “shout-down” of an invited campus speaker. At the time, all that I could hope was that CUNY represented an outlier rather than an indication of a rush toward intellectual suicide among America’s colleges and universities.